1. Age: 45 Gender: M employment/education: some high school, manual laborer health status: In excellent physical shape, reports hearing voices in his head. family mental health history: unknown family and social relationships: daughter will not speak to him drug and alcohol history: DUI and possession charges life difficulties: holding a job, being a victim of violent crimes goals: finding a place to live coping skills and weaknesses: functionally illiterate, but a talented worker
2. age:19 gender: M employment/education: hs grad, worked in fast food health status: obese, diabetic, reports periods of extreme anxiety and then times when he cannot get out of bed family mental health history: he self-diagnosed his mother with depression family and social relationships: angry outbursts drug and alcohol history: possession charges life difficulties: arrested for vagrancy, nowhere to live goals: keeping job and finding a place to live coping skills and weaknesses: low level
3. age:27 gender: F employment/education:hs+, worked as administrative assistant health status: reports feeling on edge, her every action is magnified, exaggerated, extreme highs and lows, paranoia, promiscuity. family mental health history: bipolar, paranoia family and social relationships: no longer has contact drug and alcohol history: will not report life difficulties: committed the crime of theft goals: hold a job again and date coping skills and weaknesses: has training as an auto mechanic, has worked as a telemarketer
4. age:43 gender: F employment/education: some hs, is a full time mother health status: quite ill, some paranoia, delusions of grandeur, not schizophrenic. Came to therapist because DCF said it would help to tell the court in her efforts to get her children back. family mental health history: children in foster care currently, some seem to have developmental delays family and social relationships: parents long dead, children in foster care drug and alcohol history: refusal to take medications for treatment of any condition, recovering alcoholic life difficulties: employment: caring for children goals: a home for her children and a way to feed them coping skills and weaknesses: limited coping skills
5. age:26 gender: M employment/education: licensed electrician health status: healthy, reports not wanting to talk to others, required to speak to therapist by his work who report concern over angry outbursts and acting "weird and uncaring about anything or anyone." family mental health history: some depression family and social relationships: lives in parents' basement, no siblings drug and alcohol history: none life difficulties: overbearing parents goals, get own home, avoid "gold digging women" coping skills and weaknesses: easily agitated, unwilling to communicate with others
6. age: 32 gender: F employment/education: prostitute, some high school health status: HIV+ and reports experiencing periods of profound depression and then serious high energy/mania family mental health history: a history of bipolar disorder on father’s side family and social relationships: abused by father, unable to form long term relationships with males drug and alcohol history: cocaine addiction life difficulties: addiction, homelessness, arrest for prostitution, HIV+ goals: get off the street, find a place to stay, get medication for HIV coping skills and weaknesses: very pleasant, working to stop taking drugs
7. age:17 gender: F employment/education: some hs, runaway, here as part of juvenile probation health status: healthy, angry, paranoid family mental health history: unwilling to discuss, but police records show male relative sexually abused her. family and social relationships: unwilling to discuss drug and alcohol history: "take what I can get" life difficulties: arrested for vagrancy and trespassing goals: get GED coping skills and weaknesses: open to help, wary of strangers
8. age:34 gender: M employment/education: recently left military, USMC, high school diploma health status: excellent physical condition, some anxiety and bursts of fear/rage at certain trigger sounds. "I'm not going crazy, but I feel like I'm back in Fallujah sometimes." family mental health history: none given family and social relationships: parents living, baby he paying child support for drug and alcohol history: recreational marijuana use life difficulties: getting certification and finding a job goals: become HVAC certified, finding an apartment coping skills and weaknesses: a good outlook on life
9. age:17 gender: F employment/education: retail, still in high school health status: "sick all the time" weight fluctuations, obsession with being thin family mental health history: some depression, "just run of the mill stuff" family and social relationships: parents care for her and siblings very much, parents brought her to therapy concerned about her sometimes not eating and sometimes eating a great deal. drug and alcohol history: has smoked pot at parties, "maybe a beer or two" life difficulties: few goals: she wants to be thin. And get into a good college. Parents want her to to be healthy and get good grades coping skills and weaknesses: good grades, lots of friends, parents who care about her, but she doesn't recognize this support.
10. age: 18 gender: MtF employment/education: just graduated high school and has been accepted to college but parents are not willing to sign off on FAFSA so future is unclear. Works in retail at the mall. health status: feeling sad and overwhelmed at family's response to client's coming out as transgendered and wanting to live as a female. family mental health history: "they all think they are just find, but really, they lead sad lives filled with nothing." family and social relationships: Family is not speaking with client. Client has many close friends from school and community. drug and alcohol history: social drinker life difficulties: kicked out of family house, currently staying at friends' houses. Unsure if able to go to college without parents legally disowning him. goals: find a place to live, go to college, re-establish relationship with family. coping skills and weaknesses: very smart, many friends, feeling blue and like nothing is manageable.
11. age 38 gender: M employment/education: graduate school. Works as a middle school teacher. health status: sad, blue, feeling out of it, no reason to get up in the morning.
family mental health history: nothing out of the ordinary
family and social relationships: parents are elderly and ill, wife of 15 years is threatening to leave if he doesn't go to therapy.
drug and alcohol history: a beer every night, more when the Pats are playing.
life difficulties: stressful job, feeling overwhelmed and detached from life.
goals: feel better
coping skills and weaknesses: still employed, has a hard time talking about feelings and does not want to follow directions.
Gender: M
employment/education: some high school, manual laborer
health status: In excellent physical shape, reports hearing voices in his head.
family mental health history: unknown
family and social relationships: daughter will not speak to him
drug and alcohol history: DUI and possession charges
life difficulties: holding a job, being a victim of violent crimes
goals: finding a place to live
coping skills and weaknesses: functionally illiterate, but a talented worker
2. age:19
gender: M
employment/education: hs grad, worked in fast food
health status: obese, diabetic, reports periods of extreme anxiety and then times when he cannot get out of bed
family mental health history: he self-diagnosed his mother with depression
family and social relationships: angry outbursts
drug and alcohol history: possession charges
life difficulties: arrested for vagrancy, nowhere to live
goals: keeping job and finding a place to live
coping skills and weaknesses: low level
3. age:27
gender: F
employment/education:hs+, worked as administrative assistant
health status: reports feeling on edge, her every action is magnified, exaggerated, extreme highs and lows, paranoia, promiscuity.
family mental health history: bipolar, paranoia
family and social relationships: no longer has contact
drug and alcohol history: will not report
life difficulties: committed the crime of theft
goals: hold a job again and date
coping skills and weaknesses: has training as an auto mechanic, has worked as a telemarketer
4. age:43
gender: F
employment/education: some hs, is a full time mother
health status: quite ill, some paranoia, delusions of grandeur, not schizophrenic. Came to therapist because DCF said it would help to tell the court in her efforts to get her children back.
family mental health history: children in foster care currently, some seem to have developmental delays
family and social relationships: parents long dead, children in foster care
drug and alcohol history: refusal to take medications for treatment of any condition, recovering alcoholic
life difficulties: employment: caring for children
goals: a home for her children and a way to feed them
coping skills and weaknesses: limited coping skills
5. age:26
gender: M
employment/education: licensed electrician
health status: healthy, reports not wanting to talk to others, required to speak to therapist by his work who report concern over angry outbursts and acting "weird and uncaring about anything or anyone."
family mental health history: some depression
family and social relationships: lives in parents' basement, no siblings
drug and alcohol history: none
life difficulties: overbearing parents
goals, get own home, avoid "gold digging women"
coping skills and weaknesses: easily agitated, unwilling to communicate with others
6. age: 32
gender: F
employment/education: prostitute, some high school
health status: HIV+ and reports experiencing periods of profound depression and then serious high energy/mania
family mental health history: a history of bipolar disorder on father’s side
family and social relationships: abused by father, unable to form long term relationships with males
drug and alcohol history: cocaine addiction
life difficulties: addiction, homelessness, arrest for prostitution, HIV+
goals: get off the street, find a place to stay, get medication for HIV
coping skills and weaknesses: very pleasant, working to stop taking drugs
7. age:17
gender: F
employment/education: some hs, runaway, here as part of juvenile probation
health status: healthy, angry, paranoid
family mental health history: unwilling to discuss, but police records show male relative sexually abused her.
family and social relationships: unwilling to discuss
drug and alcohol history: "take what I can get"
life difficulties: arrested for vagrancy and trespassing
goals: get GED
coping skills and weaknesses: open to help, wary of strangers
8. age:34
gender: M
employment/education: recently left military, USMC, high school diploma
health status: excellent physical condition, some anxiety and bursts of fear/rage at certain trigger sounds. "I'm not going crazy, but I feel like I'm back in Fallujah sometimes."
family mental health history: none given
family and social relationships: parents living, baby he paying child support for
drug and alcohol history: recreational marijuana use
life difficulties: getting certification and finding a job
goals: become HVAC certified, finding an apartment
coping skills and weaknesses: a good outlook on life
9. age:17
gender: F
employment/education: retail, still in high school
health status: "sick all the time" weight fluctuations, obsession with being thin
family mental health history: some depression, "just run of the mill stuff"
family and social relationships: parents care for her and siblings very much, parents brought her to therapy concerned about her sometimes not eating and sometimes eating a great deal.
drug and alcohol history: has smoked pot at parties, "maybe a beer or two"
life difficulties: few
goals: she wants to be thin. And get into a good college. Parents want her to to be healthy and get good grades
coping skills and weaknesses: good grades, lots of friends, parents who care about her, but she doesn't recognize this support.
10. age: 18
gender: MtF
employment/education: just graduated high school and has been accepted to college but parents are not willing to sign off on FAFSA so future is unclear. Works in retail at the mall.
health status: feeling sad and overwhelmed at family's response to client's coming out as transgendered and wanting to live as a female.
family mental health history: "they all think they are just find, but really, they lead sad lives filled with nothing."
family and social relationships: Family is not speaking with client. Client has many close friends from school and community.
drug and alcohol history: social drinker
life difficulties: kicked out of family house, currently staying at friends' houses. Unsure if able to go to college without parents legally disowning him.
goals: find a place to live, go to college, re-establish relationship with family.
coping skills and weaknesses: very smart, many friends, feeling blue and like nothing is manageable.
11. age 38
gender: M
employment/education: graduate school. Works as a middle school teacher.
health status: sad, blue, feeling out of it, no reason to get up in the morning.
family mental health history: nothing out of the ordinary
family and social relationships: parents are elderly and ill, wife of 15 years is threatening to leave if he doesn't go to therapy.
drug and alcohol history: a beer every night, more when the Pats are playing.
life difficulties: stressful job, feeling overwhelmed and detached from life.
goals: feel better
coping skills and weaknesses: still employed, has a hard time talking about feelings and does not want to follow directions.